Driving social change through influence and behavior shifts in resistant, resource-constrained environments with a focus on Arkansas.
Why Adaptive Change?
Social change most often fails for behavioral and political reasons, rather than technical ones. Adaptive Change is solving non-technical problems that require a behavioral or political adaptation, often by many people.
This work is based on the thought leadership of Douglas K. Smith, including his book: The Discipline of Teams, co-author Jon R. Katzenbach (2001).
Figuring out how to effectively coach people to make Adaptive Change is our focus. Most leadership coaches work with individuals. Most policy consultants work on the system. Our work is the human gap between the two: persuasion, coalition and sustained will to keep pushing when progress is hard to see.
"Real teams don't emerge unless individuals on them take risks involving conflict, trust, interdependence, and hard work."
— Douglas K. Smith & Jon R. Katzenbach, The Discipline of Teams
Persuasion • Coalition • Sustained Will • Human Gap